AI Platform Engineer

Lloyds Banking Group; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday, with bank holidays on

Generous pension contribution

Flexible and hybrid working options

Wellbeing support

Learning opportunities

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group is seeking an AI Platform Engineer for the Analytics & AI Platform, within the BIaaS Lab, to design, build, scale and support BI and AI platform capabilities used by thousands of colleagues.

You'll work in a feature team with Product Owners and multi-skilled engineers, contributing to Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Looker, while ensuring secure, scalable services and promoting self-service analytics across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Experience administering and supporting enterprise BI platforms such as Power BI, Looker or similar technologies.
• Experience designing, implementing or supporting platform services, standards and operational practices within a technology environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical stakeholders across architecture, security, networking and cloud functions.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles and how they apply to platform development and service delivery.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate issues and identify practical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing and supporting BI and AI platform capabilities that enable trusted analytics across the organisation.
• Creating reusable patterns, blueprints, best practices, operating models and standards to support platform adoption and self-service.
• Delivering platform improvements that enhance connectivity between BI applications and cloud or on-premises data sources.
• Contributing to conversational analytics, AI-enabled insight capabilities and semantic data foundations that improve access to information.
• Collaborating with architecture, security, networking and cloud teams to develop secure, scalable and resilient platform solutions.
• Supporting platform simplification and continuous improvement initiatives that improve the experience of BI developers and consumers.

Tools

Power BI

Looker

Job description

Join our Analytics & AI Platform, the hub for enabling Analytics & AI across the organisation. This role sits within our Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) Lab, an enablement function focused on delivering our vision for the future of Business Intelligence! As an AI Platform Engineer, you'll help design, build, implement, scale and support strategic BI and AI platform capabilities used by tens of thousands of colleagues. Working within a feature team alongside Product Owners and multi-skilled engineers, you'll contribute to the evolution of our strategic analytics platforms, including Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Looker! Key responsibilities include:

• Designing, implementing and supporting BI and AI platform capabilities that enable trusted analytics across the organisation.
• Creating reusable patterns, blueprints, best practices, operating models and standards to support platform adoption and self-service.
• Delivering platform improvements that enhance connectivity between BI applications and cloud or on-premises data sources.
• Contributing to conversational analytics, AI-enabled insight capabilities and semantic data foundations that improve access to information.
• Collaborating with architecture, security, networking and cloud teams to develop secure, scalable and resilient platform solutions.
• Supporting platform simplification and continuous improvement initiatives that improve the experience of BI developers and consumers.

About us / Why Lloyds Banking Group Like the modern Britain we serve, we're transforming the way we use technology, data and AI to create better outcomes for our customers and colleagues. We're investing in modern platforms and innovative capabilities that help unlock the value of data across the Group. Join us and you'll be part of a collaborative environment where innovation, learning and continuous improvement are encouraged. You'll have the opportunity to work on meaningful challenges while helping shape the future of analytics and AI enablement.

And any experience of this would be really useful

• Experience administering and supporting enterprise BI platforms such as Power BI, Looker or similar technologies.
• Experience designing, implementing or supporting platform services, standards and operational practices within a technology environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with technical stakeholders across architecture, security, networking and cloud functions.
• Knowledge of software engineering principles and how they apply to platform development and service delivery.
• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to investigate issues and identify practical solutions.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with cloud platform tooling and automation capabilities such as infrastructure-as-code, identity and access management or deployment tooling.
• Exposure to Microsoft Fabric, AI-enabled analytics capabilities or conversational analytics solutions.
• Knowledge of semantic modelling, knowledge-layer concepts or end-to-end BI data patterns.

If you're excited by the opportunity to help build the future of Business Intelligence and AI platform capabilities, we'd love to hear from you. Join us and play a key role in enabling trusted, scalable analytics and AI solutions across the Group.

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we're building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion, supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We are committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and launch a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role and have a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition, through the Disability Confident Scheme. We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers - just let us know what you need.,

• 28 days' holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Flexible and hybrid working options.
• Access to wellbeing support and colleague assistance programmes.
• A wide range of colleague benefits and learning opportunities.